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I can't believe I didn't know that. Thanks.

Real bummer that you have to specify the drive letter. (At least on Win7, where I just tried it.)

The behavior is kind of interesting for 'dir' at least:

    E:>dir "/"

     Directory of \\

    File Not Found

    E:>dir  \\

    The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Same result for «dir "//"».

(For those not experienced with the Windows command prompt, seeing "Directory of \\" is unexpected, and seeing it means that something interesting must be going on.)



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